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Gawain Edward “Ed” Pendray was born in Nebraska in 1901. He and his wife were founding members of the American Interplanetary Society.

A newspaper reporter and editor, freelance writer, and public relations man in New York City, Pendray and his wife, writer Leatrice “Lee” Gregory, became enthused by space travel in the 1920s. He wrote science fiction stories, and they became founding members of the American Interplanetary Society. In 1945 he published the Coming Age of Rocket Power and in 1970 co-edited The Papers of Robert H. Goddard with Esther C. Goddard.